Has political correctness actually gone mad?
- Thread starter Pogue Mahone
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That's ridiculous.
There's a fine line between appropriation and appreciation. If someone wants to celebrate another person's culture without adapting their lifestyle then it should be viewed as a positive. The cases where they try to act and pretend that they are of that particular race are the ones that need scrutiny. Beyonce wearing a sari or Minaj wearing a kimono are all just artists appreciating a particular culture. Post wearing braids goes with his whole look and he'll still be awesome with our without it. He isn't tanning or trying to look darker. People are too sensitive these days and are always looking to cancel people for simply adapting a style. Cancel those who adapt a whole culture and are pretending they're that race.
I have an aunt who is white and she wore a sari at her wedding. I guess she would be accused of cultural appropriation too ?
I have an aunt who is white and she wore a sari at her wedding. I guess she would be accused of cultural appropriation too ?
If he has Irish heritage then he could maybe argue that tattoos/braided/dreadlocked hair is something you’d see on his celtic ancestors.
Seems to be a thorny topic though. Just googling “celt dreadlocks” drops you smack bang in the middle of endless online bickering. There’s evidently a lot of people who think this stuff is all VERY. IMPORTANT.
So people have to do a whole DNA analysis now before they can braid their hair?
As white people, we should probably apologise for Halloween costumes over the years.
Exhausting isn't the word.
Imagine how fast David Beckham would have been cancelled today. Sarongs and corn rows 
So then did the Afro-American's culturally appropriate from the celts? That's not a serious question. It's not cultural appropriation, it's fashion choices.
I can give you another "cultural appropriation", silk. The Chinese tried to keep it secret for centuries.
It's dreadful, isn't it, and hardly unexpected. Completely managed to wash over the actual issue without fail.
You can petition for the matter to be reviewed in the next sitting of the Council of White People
Y'know, I've never been invited.
What's the issue? That Jesy should have studied American black history before she got a tan on holiday and braided her hair?
If that's your opinion, fine, but also demand that anyone wearing a wig of straight black hair studies the histories of India and China.
Y'know, I've never been invited.
Of course you haven't, who do you think you are?
Just make a petition like the rest of us plebs and the Council will review it in due time.
Yep, i'm done.
Do you have sources that prove this isn't the case today?
I promised myself I’d avoid these topics but like a car crash on the motorway, I can’t help but look.
I think it's made more difficult with musical artists because of the influence record companies have on their image.
Good point.
So tell me then, why is she not allowed to get a tan on holiday and wear her hair however she likes it?
And there, if it was a corporate decision, I could see the case of cynical exploitation of black culture, but if its just the way she likes to dress, then it's just fashion
What a bizarre response.
I checked and apologise. I think I mistook you for someone else and framed your reply the wrong way. Sorry.
Guys, I'm sorry. I had therapy today and I was on one a bit.
If I've offended anyone, I'm really sorry.
If I've offended anyone, I'm really sorry.
I feel you... Personally I don't have the time/patience but appreciate what you tried to do.
Yeah i'm at my limit on here personally, no point engaging going forward.
I get it. Why bother expend the energy giving your perspective on an emotive subject when nobody really listens? A very pertinent pov I might add given the subject. You tried to shed light on the latest post in this mess of a thread, politely and articulately, and were met with handwaving and whataboutery.
If the mission is to dissolution and silence then... Mission accomplished I guess. If it's to gain understanding on a subject that is not understood? Spectacular failure...
All the drama, moralising and apologies in here because some girl got braids and a tan. 
The last few pages of this would make pretty good material for the hypernorm thread.
The last few pages of this would make pretty good material for the hypernorm thread.
I always thought that the Indian hair came from women shaving their heads in temple rituals and the hair is then sold on by temple authorities.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Indian women don't sell their hair through financial compulsion, do they?
What does that mean?
Massively. What you're talking about is a tiny part of the subcontinent of India.
India is big, which means that when there's poor people, there's lots of poor people. Have you seen the length of the strands of the wig hair? That's a one shot. You don't sell that hair twice. Selling hair is a last resort. Actually, it's not the last, just one on a slippery slope.
And even if it was "Indian hair came from women shaving their heads in temple rituals and the hair is then sold on by temple authorities" , that's a social structure selling the body parts of their congregation. Isn't that a bit of a fecked up trade?
It means to have the brains of a donkey, or a donkey-type creature, you fool.
100%. I was just assuming that they never get monetary compensation for the hair which I agree is fecked.
people reproducing aboriginal art for mass production here in Australia
thus stealing a revenue stream for the aboriginal artists here
there are loads of other genuine examples of course, if you care to do some research
lets not pretend that just because some people use CA for point-scoring on Twitter that it isn't a genuine issue (I do think a lot of the stuff we see online is basically horse-shit)
Huh? People only pretend to be black/mixed race online? That doesn't make any sense. Just because you watch things on the TV news doesn't mean the events that you watch only occur on TV.
It is cultural appropriation but it is only damaging when the dominate culture appropriates from the minority culture. Much the same as someone calling me (living in a predominantly white country) whitey might be insulting or upsetting but doesn't disempower me in the way me disparaging an indigenous person would based on their skin colour, so it isn't of sufficient concern to worry about.
The whole “real people don’t talk about this stuff” thing is the most troubling aspect of these kinds of discourses IMO. Who are the ‘real’ people in this scenario? What is ‘real’ life, exactly?… and according to who?